Friday, April 27, 2007

Austin Magruder - Fred Phelps

The Topeka, Kansas.-based Westboro Baptist Church, which is not affiliated with any national Baptist organization, announced plans to protest at victims’ funerals only hours after 32 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. They also may protest at other events on the Virginia Tech campus. Fred Phelps and his organization protest at many military funerals, and are extremely conservative in their political views to put it mildly. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are protesting these funerals because they believe that God would not allow good christians to die this way. He feels that it is god's wrath on our nation. My question to Phelps is, how would god feel about protesting at funerals? Isn't that simply morally wrong? To make a statement such as those students must have been sinners is ludacris. But he takes it another step further, by going to these funerals where families and friends are mourning over their loss and saying these kids deserved it. This man disgusts me and i would not be surprised at all to see him physically harmed for what he says he wants to do.

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